Above: have finished reading Howards End and have now started Disputed Land by Tim Pears.
For all the quasi-socialism and proto-feminism of Howards End, basically EM Forster seemed to be endorsing the permanence of farming families living in a sustainable relationship with the land.
Appalled by the state of Knole and have just sent them a donation. Knole is inseparable (in my mind) from Vita Sackville-West's Knole and the Sackvilles (although the book is effectively a work of imaginative fiction). How can the National Trust just let the place fall down?
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